This edition's guest columnists are writing on topics such as 12-string guitar songs, writing music lyrics and chord tone permutations. We've got six contributed articles altogether - five have been written by regular contributing columnists and one written by new columnist Austin Consordini.

Simon Candy is back with an acoustic guitar-oriented column "3 Ways To Sound Amazing On Your Guitar Using Chords In An Open G Tuning". Mike Campese also returns with an article inspired by his newly released solo album entitled "All Alone" Solo Excerpts". James Rosocha rejoins us with his bass-oriented column "Permutations of Chord Tones". Joining us for the first time is consordini.com blogger Austin Consordini with "Top 12-string Acoustic Guitar Songs". Finally, guitarist Tommaso Zillio contributes two more articles, "Writing Music Lyrics That People Can Sing Along To" and "Get Over Your Songwriter's Block With This Simple Advice".

Enjoy a blast from the past with a classic column from the Guitar Nine archives, Dan McAvinchey's "Indie Release Do's and Don'ts".

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